Registration / Serial: | N79906 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Grumman G-44 Widgeon |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Grumman G-44 Widgeon (J4F) |
Aircraft Version: | Grumman G-44 Widgeon |
C/n (msn): | 1327 |
Operator Titles: | Sky Trekking Alaska |
City / Seaplane Base: | Anchorage - Lake Hood Strip / Seaplane (PALH / LHD)Map |
Region / Country: | Alaska, United States |
Photo Date: | July 1997 |
Photo by: | David A. MontgomeryContact |
Photo ID: | 845897Submit Correction |
View count: | 50 |
Built in 1943 and joined the US Navy as a J4F-2, 32973. Transferred to the US Coast Guard in 1946. Further transferred in 1950 to the US Dept of the Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service as N725 following civil conversion. Reworked as Super Widgeon N79906 by Sea Airmotive at Anchorage AK in 1957. Served in Alaska with Cordova Airlines 1959-68, with Kenai Floatplane Serviice 1968-1985, then with private owners, finally at Wasilla 1997-2003. Exported to Canada in 2003 as C-FBCP. Re-registered in Michigan as N10BQ in 2023.
Registration / Serial: | N79906 |
Aircraft Version: | Grumman G-44 Widgeon |
C/n (msn): | 1327 |
Operator Titles: | Sky Trekking Alaska |
City / Seaplane Base: | Anchorage - Lake Hood Strip / Seaplane (PALH / LHD)Map | Region / Country: | Alaska, United States |
Photo Date: | July 1997 |
Photo by: | David A. MontgomeryContact |
Registration / Serial: | N79906 |
Aircraft Original Type: | Grumman G-44 Widgeon |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Grumman G-44 Widgeon (J4F) |
Aircraft Version: | Grumman G-44 Widgeon |
C/n (msn): | 1327 |
Operator Titles: | Sky Trekking Alaska |
City / Seaplane Base: | Anchorage - Lake Hood Strip / Seaplane (PALH / LHD)Map |
Region / Country: | Alaska, United States |
Photo Date: | July 1997 |
Photo by: | David A. MontgomeryContact |
Photo ID: | 845897Submit Correction |
View count: | 50 |
Built in 1943 and joined the US Navy as a J4F-2, 32973. Transferred to the US Coast Guard in 1946. Further transferred in 1950 to the US Dept of the Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service as N725 following civil conversion. Reworked as Super Widgeon N79906 by Sea Airmotive at Anchorage AK in 1957. Served in Alaska with Cordova Airlines 1959-68, with Kenai Floatplane Serviice 1968-1985, then with private owners, finally at Wasilla 1997-2003. Exported to Canada in 2003 as C-FBCP. Re-registered in Michigan as N10BQ in 2023.
Registration / Serial: | N79906 |
Aircraft Version: | Grumman G-44 Widgeon |
C/n (msn): | 1327 |
Operator Titles: | Sky Trekking Alaska |
City / Seaplane Base: | Anchorage - Lake Hood Strip / Seaplane (PALH / LHD)Map | Region / Country: | Alaska, United States |
Photo Date: | July 1997 |
Photo by: | David A. MontgomeryContact |